João Pedro Stédile of the MST: ’We are in the midst of an ideological battle’
1 July by Nilton Viana
João Pedro Stédile Interviewed by Brasil de Fato
Brasil de Fato — It is time for the government to ally itself with the people or pay the price in the future. This is one of the evaluations of João Pedro Stedile, national coordinator of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) on the recent mobilisations across the country.
According to Stédile, there is an urban crisis installed in Brazilian cities, provoked by the current stage of financial capitalism. “For people, large cities have becoming a living hell where they lose three or four hours a day in transit, which they could instead be using to spend with their family, studying or participating in cultural activities”, he says. For the MST leader, reducing public transport fare prices was of great interest to all the people and this was what the Free Fare Movement got right by calling for mobilisation on behalf of the interests of the people.


Austerity is wreaking economic catastrophe on Europe, 
The World Bank and the IMF have the power to impose economic policies on developing countries even when voters and elected politicians in those countries unanimously reject them [AFP]
Semences locales et biodiversité, agriculture biologique, permaculture et agroécologie, réseaux de producteurs-consommateurs, jardins urbains autogérés et cuisines collectives : les grecs s’approprient leur agriculture et leur alimentation !
Sacando fuerzas del dolor, de este sentimiento triste de habernos quedado huérfanos como todo nuestro pueblo. Del pueblo que hoy en la calle acompaña, arropa, sigue cariñosamente al cuerpo de nuestro Comandante para homenajearlo como se merece. Sacando fuerzas de ese dolor, queremos hablarle a ese pueblo, al de los Abriles y Febreros.
Bogotá, Colombia, Marzo 5 de 2013
The antitrust protests in Bulgaria started on 5 February in Blagoevgrad and then throughout the country. The protests are against monopolies and the high energy bills for heating and electricity for the months of December 2012 and January 2013.
Tunis, 6 February 2013
La juxtaposition des 2 termes peut sembler surprenante et pourtant, il y a bien un lien direct entre la lutte contre le nazisme et la défense de la protection sociale. En effet, la sécurité sociale n’est pas une question comptable ou technique mais est d’abord et avant tout une question politique de répartition des richesses aux conséquences sociales considérables.
Cet article n’a pas pour but d’analyser politiquement le sommet climatique qui s’est tenu à Doha, au Qatar, début décembre.
There was no public debt in Grecian-Roman antiquity. This absence is peculiar to the period, unlike Italian cities of the late middle ages and modern times, and modern states.